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Changing Light, changing topics – how do we know?

This week the changing amount of light is really noticeable. The signs of harvest and of Autumn’s cooling and darkening weather are strong here in a – an actual Saxon village of the contemporary real world. That means this is far from the only place with Internet service and a car, but the majority of locals are either actually Saxons, or have become that way from immigration and mixing. There are also foreigners who continue to feel foreign for a long time. Sometimes that is by choice and in some cases it is not. The ease with which can not want to learn the German language makes it more common.

The German language is not that bad once you get the hang of it. There are some major qualities that help. They know it freaks other peoples out quite easily and are so aware that it can be a difficult language that they have built in a joke about that to be used amongst themselves. They pull that one out early to share with people who are clearly attempting to speak German and it isn’t going that smoothly, but with German, often even when done correctly it isn’t smooth. Philosophers who learn the depths of German grammar can devise incredibly complex manageable concepts and expressions using German – which keeps it challenging for those translators. Daunting, but not impossible, apparently.

One of the schools of German thought that I was taught and studied as both an undergraduate and a graduate student of philosophy was the German Immanuel Kant. In this village, there is a street named after him. Kant did some of the preliminary work in epistemology – how do we humans even know anything? What is knowledge? that paved the way for the scientific method.

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